Social Skills?!&#%

I'm currently driving along with boyfriend and his college roomate, who has flown in from across the country for a visit.... Yes yes fascinating...
Anyway, me (girlfriend) and baby are along as show-and-tell visuals for the question "what've you been up to?" am I bored? Absolutely! Do I show it? Of course not, why? Because being a card carrying alumnus of Miss Manners U, with advanced degrees in Good Girlfriend-manship and The Advanced Ethics of Arm-Candiness. I know just when to look interested, I smile warmly on cue, offer up the perfect line of questions to keep conversation flowing, and always manage more or less to "look the part" of the modern, minimalist, alternative, better half...